5mg Tirz - hypoglycemia

[BrowsingAbout]

I started Tirz in October 2024. I’m just doing it for binge eating now, I’ve lost all the weight I need to lose.

I’ve been extremely exhausted (very unlike me). I’ve also always had lightheadedness when standing, but a few months into Tirz, I passed out and bonked my head pretty hard.

I had blood drawn yesterday and I came back amazing in all of my labs, with the exception of glucose, it was abnormally low. I have to have a repeat fasting test and A1C.

I’m not sure if Tirz is the root cause of it, but what I do know is I can’t come off of it. I’m a lifelong binge eater and I have been through every single medication for it, with no luck. Any advice on how to fix the glucose issue?

 

[Calm Logic]

That is unusual. Continuous glucose monitoring would seem ideal. It costs like $90+ a month. In the meantime , I would be using the cheap $10 or $20 blood glucose kit at Walmart. I like the $20 one that comes with a lot of everything:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/ReliOn-Platinum-Blood-Glucose-Monitoring-System/1047555019

I use it for prediabetes, but I have never been hypoglycemic, even on higher doses of tirz.

 

[Iamnew2this]

I started Tirz in October 2024. I’m just doing it for binge eating now, I’ve lost all the weight I need to lose.

I’ve been extremely exhausted (very unlike me). I’ve also always had lightheadedness when standing, but a few months into Tirz, I passed out and bonked my head pretty hard.

I had blood drawn yesterday and I came back amazing in all of my labs, with the exception of glucose, it was abnormally low. I have to have a repeat fasting test and A1C.

I’m not sure if Tirz is the root cause of it, but what I do know is I can’t come off of it. I’m a lifelong binge eater and I have been through every single medication for it, with no luck. Any advice on how to fix the glucose issue?

Blood glucose monitoring( get a blood glucose monitor), orange juice, sugar packets, or eat something sweet when sugar is low.

 

[Calm Logic]

Are you having breakfast and snacks? I would think that would help prevent another epidose. (For an in-law with type-1 diabetes, those are very important, including a bedtime snack.)

Blood glucose monitoring( get a blood glucose monitor), orange juice, sugar packets, or eat something sweet when sugar is low.

This could be a safety poster:

 

[nonyabizznez]

I’m not sure if Tirz is the root cause of it, but what I do know is I can’t come off of it. I’m a lifelong binge eater and I have been through every single medication for it, with no luck. Any advice on how to fix the glucose issue?

Maybe try lowering your dose or dosing less frequently and/or eating small bits more often. Intermittent fasting and glucose issues are not simpatico if that's how you eat. (I'm an intermittent faster by habit and have similar issues.)